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Ain't I a woman : Black women and feminism

by: hooks, bell, 1952-

Publication date: 1981

Topics: African American women -- Social conditions, Sexism -- United States, Feminism -- United States, Hooks, Bell, African American women, Sexism, Feminism, African Americans, Women, Social Conditions, Feminisme, Negers, Vrouwen, Seksisme, Slavernij, Rassismus, Sexismus, Weibliche Schwarze

Publisher: Boston, MA : South End Press

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; The-ZORA-Canon-collection; books; additional_collections

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-202) and index

Sexism and the Black female slave experience. -- Continued devaluation of Black womanhood. -- The imperialism of patriarchy. -- Racism and feminism: the issue of accountability. -- Black women and feminism

An examination of the politics of racism and sexism from a feminist perspective, looking at the impact of sexism on African-American women during slavery, the devaluation of African-American womanhood, African-American male sexism, racism within the modern feminist movement, and the African-American woman's involvement in feminism and its experience and relationship to society